Understandably miffed, Van Lieshout (pictured) has called the Paris museum's team "spineless figures that want to avoid any risk".

The nearby Pompidou Centre has since offered a home to his sculpure, which appears to show two abstract figures (possibly human) having sex. But the decision to "ban" Domestikor may suggest we are becoming more prudish about art: compared to the 20th century's great art-world scandals, the outcry over these ambiguous blocks looks positively Victorian.